Term Gallery logo

Meanings of sidings in English

Portuguese
desvio

Type of railway track.

desvio
Usage of sidings in English
1
Then she turned to look at the posters on the bridge sidings.
L'Assommoir
2
Passengers, held for hours on the sidings, complained, scolded, protested and threatened.
The Winning of Barbara Worth
3
Jessup dug underneath one of the old wood sidings and crawled in.
The reversal
4
All the sidings of the sky were full of Starlight Expresses.
A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote)
5
Cars that had stood on sidings were all in ashes and still burning.
The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire
6
Ask at the snug little railway sidings where the goods are stacked-andforgotten.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) / Lette...
7
We spent more time in the sidings than we did on the track.
The distant hours
8
His fields were a sidings yard full of men and women.
Iron Council
9
Near the bridge there were sidings on which several lines of loaded trucks stood.
With Buller in Natal, Or, a Born Leader
10
They were shunting some cars onto sidings, picking up others.
IT
11
On the railway lines were many trains, shunted into sidings.
The Soul of the War
12
Even now sidings are being constructed and troop trains prepared.
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
13
How many trains standing silent on sidings, full of lp gas and flammable fertilizer?
The stand
14
Three trains stood in the sidings by the station.
The Amateur Army
15
I am not interested in branch roads or sidings.
A Son of the Hills
16
No more arclights, no more sidings, no more stations.
Lowboy
About this term
More collocations
Translations for sidings
Portuguese
desvio
Sidings through the time
Sidings across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common